Comments on: Hidden treasures for kids in Florida

By: Sheila Scarborough

Sheila Scarborough — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:27:53 +0000

@Licia Thanks for your thoughts, and for dropping by!

@Wendy Thanks; there’s a Butterfly Rainforest at the Florida Natural History Museum in Gainesville, too. Hmm, I really ought to do a Gainesville post, since I lived there….

By: Wendy Perrin

Wendy Perrin — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:20:52 +0000

My kids love Butterfly World in Coconut Creek. Great way to learn about metamorphosis and all that. Go on a sunny and clear (not cold or overcast) day, so that the butterflies will be at their most active (and will do things like land on your child’s nose).

By: Licia Berry

Licia Berry — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:40:45 +0000

My husband and I, realizing we were growing apart and in danger of losing our family, left our old life and traveled for 2 years with our kids in a motor home. In a drastic effort to correct the course we were on, we left a great home, community, careers, etc. in Asheville, NC, and leapt, hoping the net would appear, for parts unknown. The image I had then was of our family standing naked on the edge of a cliff!

We had so many crazy adventures…like the time a tornado almost lifted our RV off the ground outside of Houston, and the time we carried an injured Loggerhead Sea Turtle in the back of our car 27 miles up the beach to the turtle lab at Padre Island! We traveled from Virginia to Arizona, spending as much as 5 months in one location depending on what we felt our intuition was telling us.

It was an amazing opportunity to re-weave our connections to each other, drop out of what society expected of us, and solidify our family. Our story can be found at http://www.berrytrip.us, and a short version of the tale was just published in Jack Canfield’s new Law of Attraction book!

My kids have said they will not only tell this story to their own children, but want to take their own someday families on a journey like ours. Makes my heart happy.

By: Sheila Scarborough

Sheila Scarborough — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:18:19 +0000

Hi Beth, I wrote a California roundup for Education.com as well; as soon as they put it up, I’ll link to it.

The next one they’ll post will surprise a lot of people, I think. It’s New Jersey, and yes, there are neat things to do there with kids.

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:41:20 +0000

Sounds like fun. In a couple of weeks the kids, hubby and I are going on a search for California’s kid friendly stops. We’re cruising the entire coast. Wish us luck!